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Last edited by CaoPaux; 06-22-2013 at 05:22 AM.
Reason: Update

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

Whew!

To conserve space I haven’t cross-referenced much, but I’ll come back and sub-label some of the multi-thread sections as soon as my eyes uncross. I intend to update stuff as they scroll off the first page. In the meantime, feel free to PM me with corrections and suggestions.

<ego> Much thanks and "You're welcome!" to all who've pinged me. </ego>

Last edited by CaoPaux; 04-09-2005 at 01:48 AM.

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

*blush* Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it, actually. 'Twas a great trip down memory lane. Let me know what I've missed/messed up.

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

Does everyone have a "Find (on This Page)" function in their browser? For Explorer it's Ctrl-F. Might be handier than Search in some cases.

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

Update

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

Considering the potential for confusion, I think this warrants a separate post:

In case y'all aren't aware, the infamous ST Literary Agency recently changed its name to Stylus Literary Agency. They also formed an umbrella company The Literary Agency Group, Inc. They no doubt chose this name to create confusion with the legit (or at least competent) agency The Literary Group (aka Literary Group International).

So, what we’ve got here is The Literary Agency Group, Inc. posing as the “parent” agency for the following puppets:

The Children’s Literary Agency

The Christian Literary Agency

The New York Literary Agency

The Poets Literary Agency

The Screenplay Agency

Stylus Literary Agency

Which in turn refer writers to the paid services of:

My Editor Is A Saint

The Writers Literary & Publishing Services Co.

RapidPublishing.com

Just so we’re clear…

AVOID THESE COMPANIES!!!

ETA: 2/07: Fletcher and pals claim The Literary Agency Group is bought by Writers’ Literary Agency & Marketing Company and rename some of their "agencies" (e.g. The Children's Literary Agency to WL Children's Agency). It's all the same people and still the same scam. See individual threads for details.

ETA: 4/08: The latest tentacles are the Children's Book Publishing Agency and the Writers Book Publishing Agency. See individual threads for details.

Last edited by CaoPaux; 04-21-2008 at 11:26 PM.
Reason: Updating

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

In other news, I've settled into a comfortable rut of updating the Index on Mondays and Thursdays. Be sure to PM me if you find a broken link or something.

Carry on.

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

As some have no doubt noticed, the B&BC board is being overhauled to weed out irrelevant stuff, make old threads searchable, and condense them where practical. The Index should be updated within the next couple of days. Please pardon my dust.

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

A'ight, folks, the Index has been refurbished and updated as of 8/6. As always, feel free to PM me if you find any errors of (c)omission. Enjoy!

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

How do you use the Index (i.e. scroll or search)? Would you prefer to have stuff like on-line markets and film agencies separated from the rest? Any other suggestions?

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat

Personally, I like an all-in-one list, so I don't have to know what an agency or market is in order to find it. I scroll. I'm also on a slow connection, so I browse with javascript and everything else that slows me down further off. Maybe one master list, with color-coding to indicate agency, publisher, on-line market, etc.?

ICAO
---------Achievers strive for excellence. Perfectionists drive themselves to extinction. -- A Grapple A DayI've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. -- Charles DeSecondat